Early Years Collaborative Newsletter

Orkney Early Years
Collaborative
Up-Date Report
May 2014
Ambition of the Early Years Collaborative:
‘To make Scotland the best place in the
world to grow up in by improving outcomes
and reducing inequalities, for all babies,
children, mothers, fathers and families
across Scotland to ensure that all children
have the best start in life and are ready to
succeed’
Orkney currently has five different workstreams,
each of which has a workstream lead committed to
driving forward the improvement methodology.
1.
Orkney EYC includes anyone who has an interest in
supporting children in Orkney.
It can include parents, childcare staff, teachers,
health professionals, social workers, housing,
police, third sector and anyone who works with or
for children and the early years agenda.
1 year to 30 months 85% of all children
within each CPP have
reached all of the
expected developmental
milestones at the time of
the child’s 27-30 month
child health review by
end-2016
3.
30 months to start 90% of all children
of primary school
within each CPP reach
expected developmental
milestones at the time the
child
starts
primary
school by end 2017
Primary
1
– Waiting Information
Primary 3
Leadership
Timely delivery of all
three
work
stream
“stretch aims”
It's the world's first national multi-agency quality
improvement programme.
Since January 2013 there have been four national
learning sessions covering things like:
Early support for pregnancy and beyond

Attachment and child development

Continuity of care in transitions

27-30 month review

Developing parents’ skills

Family engagement to support learning

Addressing child poverty
Orkney has been represented at every session
and those attending have come home enthused,
sharing good ideas to test out with colleagues
here at home.
National Stretch Aim
1 To ensure that women
experience
positive
pregnancies which result
in the birth of more
healthy
babies
as
evidenced by a reduction
of 15% in the rates of:
Stillbirths
&
Infant
mortality
2.
The Early Years Collaborative was established
nationally in 2013 and is a coalition of Community
Planning Partners - including social services, health,
education, police and third sector professionals committed to ensuring that every baby, child,
mother, father and family in Scotland has access to
the best supports available.

Workstream
Conception to
year
4.
5.
Each work stream has a local lead whose role is to
support and give guidance to the Orkney EYC.
The local team meets approximately monthly to
update on local progress in improving services.
There is to be one further learning session in
Glasgow in October, so please let one of the
workstream leads know if you would like to come.
The programme can be seen here:
What has been happening in Orkney?
http://www.earlyyearscollaborative.co.uk/
Further information about the
Collaborative can be found at:
Early
Years
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/People/YoungPeople/early-years/early-years-collaborative
Ideas for improvement are being tested out using
the ‘Model for Improvement’; measuring small tests
of change to see whether our ideas result in an
improvement to local services and better outcomes
for our children and families.
Maternity Ward strengths board highlighting
achievements and progress in relation to
Workstream 1
Examples include:
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Improving uptake of Healthy Start vouchers
Carbon Monoxide testing and referral of
pregnant women to Smoking Advice
Service
Fetal movement leaflet designed by
midwives
Still birth factsheet
We welcome your input at our local events (next on
is May 12th 2014) to share your ideas for
improvement.
Please contact one of the work stream leaders if you
would like to become involved but can’t make it
Membership of Groups
Workstream Leaders
Workstream
Workstream 1.
Workstream 2.
Workstream 3.
Workstream 4.
Name
Shenagh Leiper
Karyn Tait
Catherine Diamond
Maureen Swannie
Workstream 5.
To be identified
Have a look at Early Years Collaborative projects
happening throughout Scotland – www.ihi.org and
then click on ‘extranet’. For log in access contact
Maureen ([email protected]) and she will
add you as a member. It’s worth a look to see what
colleagues throughout Scotland are doing.
Service
Health Visitor
Dental
Education
Orkney Health &
Care
What next?
In June, five people from Orkney will be attending
Learning Session 5 in Glasgow.
This includes
representatives from Speech and Language
Therapy, Community Education and Primary
Education.

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